ProQuest & Google Books Thus Far
Two months ago ProQuest announced an exciting new collaboration; works published through ProQuest UMI Dissertation Publishing would be discoverable via Google Books. The aim of this venture was to help authors increase the visibility of their works online, and thus far it looks like the plan has worked:
- In the month of August 2011 individual ProQuest dissertations and theses were viewed in Google Books over 270,000 times -- resulting in more than 1.76M pageviews.
- At present there are nearly 60,000 ProQuest dissertations and theses available in Google Books (20% of which are previews, not full-text).
If you're an author and you haven't selected the search engine option on your publishing agreement, but wish to do so now, simply contact the customer service group at disspub@proquest.com or call 800-521-0600 ext. 77020. In addition, the same group can be contacted if you wish for this option to be deselected.
Stay tuned for more updates from ProQuest in the future!